Please don’t ask us to sit through any more amateurish and bombastic speakers as part of your show, which is one of the high points of my internet viewing every week. Daniel Bessner is an immature and intolerable speaker, full of himself and high-falutin’ abstractions that seem to me callous and ill-thought-out. His wild hand signals and bloviating were childish and overwrought, and his co-guest Tyler Austin Harper seemed to spend most of his time, as he stated at least three or four times, “agreeing completely with everything” Daniel said. I think one of the worst examples among many was their cynical attempt to paint the response of Jewish students to the huge recent increase in hatred and harassment as Haidt/Lukianoff “coddling.” Are ANY students supposed to be locked in a library while protestors pound on the doors to get at them? And that was only one incident of way too many. The upstanding Jewish support organization Stand With Us has received more than 450 pleas for help since October 7. If black students had faced even one incident of that kind of intimidation, universities and the general public would be in a frenzy—and rightfully so. It’s a complete abandonment of our country’s rule of law and our moral values.
Robert Wright at least appeared to be thoughtful and well-informed about his opinion, though I found it generally irrelevant to reality of the current crisis.
Why can none of these guests, and so many others talking for hours about “context” and “nuance” and “past history,” simply read what is widely cited in the Hamas Charter, and in the Koran as interpreted by the Islamists? All Jews must be murdered and the world cleansed of them. Bessner and Harper say that Rash. Tlaib and the demonstrators may have meant “from the river to the sea” in a metaphoric sense? Give me a break. Americans and the world need to believe the hatred being spewed to all of us, and without an ounce of shame!
I regret that you chose to sign the call for a ceasefire. It was a warm-hearted thing to do, and one cannot help but feel sympathy for the Palestinian people. Israel makes herculean efforts to move them out of the way of what must be done, but Hamas states without embarrassment that they will rack up as many deaths as possible, painting those unfortunate victims as “martyrs.” It’s a tragedy that too many Palestinians have been brain-washed by a hatred that is pounded into them from birth. It’s a product of perverted religious fervor that has not been overcome despite years of effort and billions of dollars from the international community.
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Dear Glenn, your work on the Glenn Show is a bright light in this world. Thank you for all your efforts and thoughtfulness in this and other venues, including the Manhattan Institute, Woodson Center, and others. Please continue to give us your best thoughts and guests (including John McWhorter) as we all struggle to navigate the difficult issues in this world.
Dear Glenn,
Please don’t ask us to sit through any more amateurish and bombastic speakers as part of your show, which is one of the high points of my internet viewing every week. Daniel Bessner is an immature and intolerable speaker, full of himself and high-falutin’ abstractions that seem to me callous and ill-thought-out. His wild hand signals and bloviating were childish and overwrought, and his co-guest Tyler Austin Harper seemed to spend most of his time, as he stated at least three or four times, “agreeing completely with everything” Daniel said. I think one of the worst examples among many was their cynical attempt to paint the response of Jewish students to the huge recent increase in hatred and harassment as Haidt/Lukianoff “coddling.” Are ANY students supposed to be locked in a library while protestors pound on the doors to get at them? And that was only one incident of way too many. The upstanding Jewish support organization Stand With Us has received more than 450 pleas for help since October 7. If black students had faced even one incident of that kind of intimidation, universities and the general public would be in a frenzy—and rightfully so. It’s a complete abandonment of our country’s rule of law and our moral values.
Robert Wright at least appeared to be thoughtful and well-informed about his opinion, though I found it generally irrelevant to reality of the current crisis.
Why can none of these guests, and so many others talking for hours about “context” and “nuance” and “past history,” simply read what is widely cited in the Hamas Charter, and in the Koran as interpreted by the Islamists? All Jews must be murdered and the world cleansed of them. Bessner and Harper say that Rash. Tlaib and the demonstrators may have meant “from the river to the sea” in a metaphoric sense? Give me a break. Americans and the world need to believe the hatred being spewed to all of us, and without an ounce of shame!
I regret that you chose to sign the call for a ceasefire. It was a warm-hearted thing to do, and one cannot help but feel sympathy for the Palestinian people. Israel makes herculean efforts to move them out of the way of what must be done, but Hamas states without embarrassment that they will rack up as many deaths as possible, painting those unfortunate victims as “martyrs.” It’s a tragedy that too many Palestinians have been brain-washed by a hatred that is pounded into them from birth. It’s a product of perverted religious fervor that has not been overcome despite years of effort and billions of dollars from the international community.
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Dear Glenn, your work on the Glenn Show is a bright light in this world. Thank you for all your efforts and thoughtfulness in this and other venues, including the Manhattan Institute, Woodson Center, and others. Please continue to give us your best thoughts and guests (including John McWhorter) as we all struggle to navigate the difficult issues in this world.
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Well-said and says it all!